Comments on: The Fine Print: In Which We Go over the SGR Fix Line by Line with a Yellow Highlighter https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/02/07/chapter-seven-in-which-we-go-over-the-sgr-fix-line-by-line-with-a-yellow-highlighter/ Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:08:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 By: John Ballard https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/02/07/chapter-seven-in-which-we-go-over-the-sgr-fix-line-by-line-with-a-yellow-highlighter/#comment-517413 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 14:21:34 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=69989#comment-517413 In reply to Bobby Gladd.

More cowbell!

]]> By: Bobby Gladd https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/02/07/chapter-seven-in-which-we-go-over-the-sgr-fix-line-by-line-with-a-yellow-highlighter/#comment-517206 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 16:21:48 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=69989#comment-517206 In reply to john irvine.

“tired of hearing about “carrots and sticks””
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Yeah. It’s a tiresome, banal analogy for economic “incentives/disincentives,” is it not? Like physicians are mere donkeys reflexively enticed by carrots and goaded by getting whacked with sticks.

]]> By: john irvine https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/02/07/chapter-seven-in-which-we-go-over-the-sgr-fix-line-by-line-with-a-yellow-highlighter/#comment-517203 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 15:43:48 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=69989#comment-517203 “The time is right”

Well, the time is certainly right for congress to do something to improve morale. Is this it? I don’t know. See JG’s post below for the counterpoint. My guess is that the average doc is kinda tired of hearing about “carrots and sticks”…

]]> By: Bobby Gladd https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/02/07/chapter-seven-in-which-we-go-over-the-sgr-fix-line-by-line-with-a-yellow-highlighter/#comment-517076 Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:53:45 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=69989#comment-517076 A torpedo below the Meaningful Use Stage 3 waterline? MU3 has been pushed back to not begin until 2017. The ONC HITPC Working Group just announced the timeline. Without the “stick” of reimbursement penalties, who will bother with MU3, given that by 2017 there will be precious little MU Incentive money left?

I know, I know; the aggregate shedding of tears will be akin to the drought in California.

]]> By: John Ballard https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2014/02/07/chapter-seven-in-which-we-go-over-the-sgr-fix-line-by-line-with-a-yellow-highlighter/#comment-517065 Fri, 07 Feb 2014 22:05:21 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=69989#comment-517065 Long overdue. The so-called “cost” should be a one-time admission that the “doc fix” charade is off the table once and for all. No more fiscal kiting.
I’m interested to read comments left here.

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